Fair.
(And oops, she.)
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More after pics from yesterday! The first is our living room, which has been full of empty boxes since we moved in. The second is my office, which had tons of half empty boxes everywhere.
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@pdm, my before (with a 5 and 2 year old) is definitely more like @Bracken_Joy’s picture, so good job keeping it so contained!
To be fair, I’m also terrible at putting stuff away while I’m doing things (cooking, sewing, drawing, etc.) I’m REALLY trying to get our kids to be more like my husband and clean up one activity before moving on to another, but it’s…not looking promising 
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AM reset. Note the child extracting our WiFi from under her play shelf. 
lovely.
Eta the pile of blankets on the couch contain the dog.
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This is such a sweet setup for Latte. I wanna play on that rug/mat!
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Me too
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It is a pretty neat play rug! Source?
It’s a slightly squishy mat, this one;
Baby Care Play Mat - Haute Collection (Large, Nordic Trails - Moonlit Snow) - Play Mat for Infants - Non-Toxic Baby Rug - Cushioned Baby Mat Waterproo https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XQJQH31/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_BOBnSnlbfAaVa
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Stakes have been raised! I’m tidying my place for friends to come over about a week from now. My wife and I invited a group of 4-6 friends (depending on if partners come) to come stay with us in late August. Our goal is to have things mostly decorated and furnished by then. Wish me luck!
Edit to say this is our state of the family room, and you guys have seen other empty rooms here too. Air mattress = great couch.
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Anyone have any thoughts on toddler toy storage? We already do rotations but I need better storage for living room. I’m thinking of one open shelf and then something that closes? So he can discover it again?
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My vote is NOT big bins. The ikea one with the open tilted bins is super popular, but it just invites dumping. I’m partial to a shelf approach, because then it’s more effort for them to pull a toy down- that way it’s less inviting to just dump instead of playing.
And toy chests are a really good way to end up with a layer of hidden stuff that’s never seen, and lose things like apples with single bites out of them.
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I love open tilted bins but never tried it with a younger kid! I hate the cloth kind you put in a cube organizer because you can’t see what’s in it.
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A thin mist of toys over the surface of the room, lovingly put on shelves and in bins two nights a week
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It’s not the most beautiful, but we just use our TV cabinet we had haha. I put her books on the top shelves (so they’re not stacked too deep, and she doesn’t launch as many looking for specific books), and then her toys on top of it and on the shelf below.
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We have an old dresser with big drawers. Right now they’re the perfect size for lincoln logs, legos, train tracks, and hot wheels, and if you want all of something, you can pull a drawer out or move it to another room.
It only works well for sortable toys. Our other miscellaneous things are in those dang cloth bins, and books are on a bookshelf, but for large collections a dresser works well.
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Anyone in the mood for a gross before and after? We had our old washer removed and the new one put in. I think the past homeowner had been running the washer with a leak, potentially for awhile. I stopped counting hangers at 30, and detergent lids at about ten.
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hoooooooly moly, I’m not sure if I should be more impressed by the accumulation or the cleaning
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Thank you! If only I could post a video, my throat is sore from all the screaming lol. I think it took my wife and I 20 minutes of dedicated scrubbing, but I also blocked out and time lost all meaning bc of how gross it was.
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Ok so here is the system we use: they go everywhere. Any flat surface is fair game. Outside, inside, in the cars too.
Our Home Depot equivalent has these modular cubes and fabric boxes that fit them. That has been the best storage so far.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/flexi-storage-clever-cube-gloss-white-2-x-2-storage-unit_p0206277
https://www.bunnings.com.au/flexi-storage-clever-cube-330-x-330-x-370mm-insert-woven-silver_p0082380
(Ours is actually two 2x1 not the 2x2 in the link). It barely contains the current toys. We have a really small house and this is the main toy area and the living room.
Also, can we just talk for a moment about how many fires, assorted disasters and ocean rescues that go down in Pontypandy?
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Another day, another well wrecked living room you can’t even see the giant pile of shredded magazine off to the side. But believe me. It’s there.
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